The Yomiuri Shimbun
A man who killed and injured a number of schoolchildren in 1997 in Suma Ward, Kobe, recently sent a letter of apology to the family of a girl whom he killed, according to the girl's family.
It was the third letter written by the man, 24, to the family of the girl, Ayaka Yamashita, 10.
The man wrote two letters to them in August 2004 after he was temporarily discharged from a medical reformatory.
In the latest letter, the man reportedly said he would continue apologizing, but did not mention how he would do so.
"He hasn't shown sincerity, which makes us so sad," Yamashita's mother, Kyoko, 51, said. "I wish he had made clearer how he'd apologize."
According to Yamashita's family, the man's parents handed the three-page letter written with a ballpoint pen when they met in Kobe on Thursday.
(Apr. 1, 2007)